THEME:Effective Cooperation for Building CommunityResilience Against Violent Extremism

The International Youth Action Against Terrorism (IYAAT)in Partnership with theAfrican Initiative for Women in Africa (AIWA Forum) and YELI Burundiwill hold the maiden International Youths Conference on Counter-Terrorism from 4th to 6th February 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya. This is planned to involve Delegates from UN member countries.

The conference will further the post-2015 global development discourse on counter-terrorism,emphasizing counter-terrorism implementation challenges, by bringing together Youth representatives, youth leaders and leading counter-terrorism practitioners from around the world purposing to provide an opportunity to assess the crucial role of youths and women in counter-terrorism.

The conference will also identify gender dynamics and social justice issues on counter-terrorism in the past years, success stories and lessons learned. As well, they shall identify the remaining gaps and challenges and emerging issues and priorities for the future to ensure that the global counter-terrorism agenda advance the realization of gender dynamics and social justice in counter-terrorism measures.

1 ENVISAGED OUTPUTS AND RESULTS

The Conference will - while counting on the Global Youth Fora- bring together positive developments, good practices and lessons learned in analyzing the involvement of the women and youths in acts of terrorism. Furthermore, the Conference will stimulate debate, identify new approaches while promoting the replication and scaling-up of demonstrated successful interventions.

The outcomes of the conference, analytical papers, presentations and rapporteur summary will be hosted on the IYAAT web platform for Beyond 2016 consultations www.iyaat.org, and on preferred platforms of all organizing partners to this conference. The discussions emerging from the conference will inform the work of IYAAT going forward.

2 CONFERENCE FORMAT

The conference shall consist of several regular sessions spread across the 3-day period and will be designed to provide young women and men sufficient time to interact, seeking a balance between discussions on outputs, thematic debates, networking opportunities, capacity building and cultural events. The number of parallel sessions will be reduced to ensure that participants do not miss out on activities.

Following previous success, a Partnerships Hall will be organized to provide a space forevent participants andcivil society participantsfrom across the board to converse with one and other and exploredifferent initiatives taking place to create community cohesion. The aimis to build a sustainable network for participants to stay connected, andassist in furthering the global CVE goals. In addition, spaces will be organized for young leaders to present their innovative initiatives and good practices.

Media and online tools will be leveraged at the different stages of the Forum to allow broader outreach and engagement by youth across the world.

The three day conference will cost5,000 KSHS (or 50 USD)for conference fees, the participant booklet, food, snacks and entertainment for the three-day conference.

Applicants are required to make payments on or before 14th January 2016. Participants travelling both from outside and within Kenya are required to cater for their own air ticket bus ticket, local travel in Nairobi and accommodation. A list of various accommodation places and their priceswillbeprovidedtoregistereddelegates.

The PVE Youth Blast is aimed to contribute to peaceful and sustainable societies. In fact, we believe that including youths in the pursuit of peaceful and inclusive societies free of Violent Extremism must remain one of the central aims for which PVE policies are created globally. This is on account of the inextricable link between the increasing number of youths joining violent and extremist groups and the increasing threat of such terror groups.

With the support of UNFPA Burundi Country Office, Youth Empowerment and Leadership Initiative (YELI-Burundi) in partnership with WORLD PEACE INITIATIVE, COMMON GROUND CENTER and WORLD MERIT BURUNDI are organizing the DIGITAL YOUTH CONSULTATION ON PVE (Preventing Violent Extremism).

THEME:Effective Cooperation for Building CommunityResilience Against Violent Extremism The International Youth Action Against Terrorism (IYAAT)in Partnership with theAfrican Initiative for Women in Africa (AIWA Forum) and YELI Burundiwill hold the maiden International Youths Conference on Counter-Terrorism from 4th to 6th February 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya. This is planned to involve Delegates from UN member countries.

The IYCCT will bring together 200 youth Participants and leaders drawn from CVE (Countering Violent Extremism) impact countries.However,The IYCCT budget will only cover the Accommodation,meals and onsite transport (To and from the airport and during the conference) for 100 participants.The other 100 participants will be self sponsored.

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